Haile Gebrselassie Quotes
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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I get more tired by travelling than anything.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive.
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But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
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I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.
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If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end.
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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
